Feb. 4. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Arch-priest in the Diocese of Exeter. — I am 

 informed that there is, in the diocese of Exeter, a 

 dignitary who is called the Arch-priest, and that 

 he has the privilege of wearing lawn sleeves (that 

 is of course, properly, of wearing a lawn alb), and 

 also precedence in all cases next after the Bishop. 



Can any of your Devonian readers give addi- 

 tional particulars of his office or his duties ? They 

 would be useful and interesting. W. Fkaser. 



Tor-Mohun. 



Medal in honour of the Chevalier de St. George. 

 — It appears that Prince James (styled the Che- 

 valier de St. George) served in several campaigns 

 in the Low Countries under the Marquis de Torcy. 

 On one occasion, when the hostile armies were 

 encamped on the banks of the Scarpe, medals 

 were struck, and distributed among the English, 

 bearing, besides a bust of the prince, an inscription 

 relating to his bravery on a former occasion. Are 

 any of these now in existence ? They would pro- 

 bably be met with in those families whose an- 

 cestors served under Marlborough. A. S. 



Robert Bloet. — Can you certify me whether it 

 is received as an undoubted historical fact that 

 "Bobertus, comes Moritoniensis," William the 

 Conqueror's uterine brother, was identical with 

 Rohert Bloet, afterwards Chancellor and Bishop 

 of Lincoln? J. Sansom. 



Sir J. Wallace and Mr. Browne. — I inclose an 

 extract from The English Chronicle or Universal 

 Evening Post, February 6th to February 8th, 1783. 

 Can any of your learned correspondents state the 

 result of the fracas between Mr. Browne and Sir 

 J. Wallace ? 



" Yesterday about one o'clock, Sir J s W e 



and Lieutenant B e, accidentally meeting in Par- 

 liament Street, near the Admiralty Gate, Mr. B e, 



the moment he saw Sir J s, took a stick which a 



gentleman he was in company with held in his hand, 



and, after a few words passing, struck Sir J s, and 



gave him a dreadful wound in the forehead ; they closed, 

 and Sir J s, who had no weapon, made the best de- 

 fence possible, but being a weaker man than his anta- 

 gonist, was overpowered. Mr. B e, at parting, told 



Sir J s, if he had anything to say to him, he would 



be found at the Salopian Coffee House. An account of 

 this transaction being communicated to Sir Sampson 



Wright, he sent Mr. Bond after Mr. B e, who found 



him at the Admiralty, and delivered the magistrate's 

 compliments, at the same time requesting to see him 



in Bow Street. Mr. B e promised to wait upon Sir 



Sampson, but afterwards finding that no warrant had 

 issued, did not think it incumbent on him to comply, 

 and so went about his avocations. 



" Sir J s's situation after the fracas very much 



excited the compassion of the populace ; they beheld 

 that veteran bleeding on the streets, who had so often 

 gloriously fought the battles of his country ! The 

 above account is as accurate as we could learn ; but 



should there be any trivial misstatement, we shall be 

 happy in correcting it, through the means of any of our 

 readers who were present on the spot. 



" Sir James Wallace has not only given signal proofs 

 of his bravery as a naval officer, but particularly in a 

 duel with another marine officer, Mr. Perkins, whom 

 he fought at Cape Francois; each taking hold of the 

 end of a handkerchief, fired, and although the balls 

 went through both their bodies, neither of the wounds 

 proved mortal ! The friars at Cape Francois, with 

 great humanity, took charge of them till they were 

 cured of their wounds." 



J. Locke. 



Dublin. 



Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. — I should be 

 glad if any of your correspondents would refer 

 me to an authentic account of the death of Bobert 

 Dudley, Earl of Leicester, Queen Elizabeth's 

 favourite. He is said by some to have been ac- 

 cidentally poisoned by his wife; by others pur- 

 posely, by some of his adherents. This affair, 

 though clouded in mystery, appears not to have 

 been particularly inquired into. Likewise let me 

 ask, on what authority is Stanfield Hall, Norfolk 

 (the scene of a recent tragedy), described as the 

 birthplace of Amy Bobsart, the unfortunate first 

 wife of this same nobleman ? A. S. 



Abbott Families. — Samuel Abbott, of Sudbury, 

 in the county of Suffolk, gentleman, lived about 

 1670. Can any of your genealogical contributors 

 inform me if he was in any way connected with the 

 family of Archbishop Abbott, or otherwise eluci- 

 date his parentage ? It may probably be interesting 

 to persons of the same name to be acquainted that 

 the pears worn by many of the Abbot family are 

 merely a corruption of the ancient inkhorns of 

 the Abbots of Northamptonshire, and impaled in 

 Netherheyford churchyard, same county, on the 

 tomb of Sir Walt. Mauntele, knight, and his wife 

 Elizabeth, daughter of John Abbot, Esq., 1487, 

 viz. a chev. between three inkhorns. The resem- 

 blance between pears and inkhorns doubtless 

 occasioned the error. I believe the ancient bottles 

 of Harebottle were similarly corrupted into icicles. 



J. T. Abbott. 



Darlington. 



Authorship of a Ballad. — In the Manchester 

 Guardian of Jan. 7, the author of a stanza, writ- 

 ten on the execution of Thos. Syddale, is desired ; 

 as also the remainder of the ballad. From what 

 quarter is either of these more likely to be ob- 

 tained than from " N. & Q. ? " 



P. J. F. Gaktillon. 



Elias Petley. — What is known of the life or 

 works of Elias Petley, priest, who dedicated to 

 Archbishop Laud his translation of the English 

 Liturgy into Greek. The book was published at 

 the press of Thomas Cotes, for Bichard Whitaker, 



